docs: def _parse_conference(self, stats):
          """
          Parse the conference abbreviation for the player's team.
  
          The conference abbreviation is embedded within the conference name tag
          and should be special-parsed to extract it.
  
          Parameters
          ----------
          stats : PyQuery object
              A PyQuery object containing the HTML from the player's stats page.
  
          Returns
          -------
          string
              Returns a string of the conference abbreviation, such as 'big-12'.
          """
          conference_tag = stats(PLAYER_SCHEME['conference'])
          conference = re.sub(r'.*/cbb/conferences/',
                              '',
                              str(conference_tag('a')))
          conference = re.sub(r'/.*', '', conference)
          return conference